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Examiner Behrooz M Senfi

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 1,097 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
87%vs 66% art-unit average+21 pts
higher than about 83% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 45 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Behrooz M Senfi has allowed 951 of 1,097 decided applications.

951 allowed
Plus 38 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Behrooz M Senfi maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across more than a thousand decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 87%. This rate reflects the share of applications in the decided pool (allowed and abandoned combined) and excludes pending matters. The allowance rate figure is derived from the examiner's pooled record and describes the historical outcome distribution without prediction of any specific application's result.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates outcomes across the examiner's art units and presents an overall allowance rate. Pooled figures describe past decisions across multiple technology areas and do not constitute predictions about any particular application. The allowance rate is a historical measure of the ratio of allowed to decided applications and reflects correlational data only—not causation or likelihood of future outcomes on any given case.

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The record, art unit by art unit.1 art unit

Each section benchmarks this examiner against that art unit's average. Figures are this examiner's own public record within the art unit; the overall rate above pools them.

◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2482
1,135 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 83% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 45 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition1,097 decided applications

951 allowed
Plus 38 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.9mo
disposed 28.6mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 38.4 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
AU 13
12%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
69%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
66%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
29%

Interview benefit

Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

without
86%
+5 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 192 decided applications with an interview and 905 without.

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Questions about Examiner Behrooz M Senfi

  • What is Behrooz M Senfi's allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 87% across more than a thousand decided applications in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Behrooz M Senfi's public record spans one art unit.
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) and excludes pending applications. It describes past outcomes, not predictions for any specific case.
  • Does this record apply to my application?
    This pooled figure is historical data and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual results vary based on claim scope, prior art, and examination details.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Behrooz M Senfi has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 2026. The overall allowance rate is total allowed divided by total decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across all art units — not an average of the per-art-unit rates; pending applications are excluded. Figures are rounded for display. Pooled sample: 1,135 applications.

Rejection rates. Each §-rate is the share of this examiner's applications that drew at least one office-action rejection in which that statutory ground appears; applications with no rejection on record are excluded, and because grounds can co-occur the four do not sum to 100%. The art-unit figure beside each is the unweighted mean of the per-examiner rates across the art unit, published for §101 and §103 only. Beside the overall allowance rate we show a benchmark: for a single-art-unit examiner it is exactly that art unit's average, labeled “art-unit average”; for an examiner spanning several art units it is the “weighted peer average” — the per-art-unit averages, weighted by this examiner's application count in each — labeled distinctly because it is a blended figure, not any single art unit's average. Both are built from the same per-art-unit averages the panels show.

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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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